<TITLE>12. Par 47-50</TITLE>L-47 The Samaritans, as soon as their sign was given them, they come out and heard Him and believed Him. Years has passed. The Gentile Church has come into existence. It's had two thousand years of churches, and--and revivals, and so forth. And it's been wonderful. Forty years ago when Mrs. McPherson, and lots of the great saints that lived in that day, when the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the church, and great gifts begin to be restored, such as the unknown tongues and the interpretation, great healing services, and angels singing in the temples, and so forth. It was great.
But we're at the end time now. This is about fifty years later. Now, is He the same, yesterday, today, and forever? Does He know the secret of the heart" Is He still going to keep His Word? And if God made Hisself known through Jesus as the Messiah by that sign, He would be unjust, and gave them something that He didn't give us, if He doesn't manifest Himself the same way to this church today. If He did it to the Jews and to the Samaritans, He's obligated, by His holiness and by His righteousness, to manifest Himself at the end of this age. For we're living in the closing of the day of this Christian dispensation.

L-48 Let us pray. Lord, great God of heavens and earth, Who made all things by Jesus Christ Thy Son, forgive us, O Lord, of our sins and our shortcomings. And when we speak of sin, Lord, Thou knowest that there's only one sin, and that is the sin of unbelief. "For he that believeth not is condemned already." No matter how righteous he is, or how much he's done, or what we have done, it makes no difference. We've got to believe. And I pray, God, that You'll instill in our hearts the power of the resurrected Jesus. Let us not be that type of people that would look upon a gift. Let us not be the type of people, as it was expressed to us by Brother duPlessis tonight: thinking that the person who bringing the message has anything to do with it, no more than just obedience to God and His will. Somebody's got to do it. None of us is worthy. And we confess that we're not worthy. But it's Your grace that's promised it. And Thy Words are true.
I can think, Lord, as the little boy, of reading of Aimee Semple McPherson. And the criticism that we's... would find in the papers sometime, that they said that she claimed to heal people. How we found out how falsely that was. And we read of, and have heard of the great ones, of Dr. Price, and of the F. F. Bosworth, and great saints who lived before this day. They all looked and prophesied of the day coming when the Church would receive its manifestation of the Presence of its Saviour among them in greater ways that it was receiving it then.

L-49 O Lord, hear me, and answer my humble cry. As I pray Thee, Lord, that men and women in here, and wherever, and those that'll gather in, may they not think it to be that it's some simple man, but may they realize that it is the--the promise of God, that Jesus would be manifested to this Gentile age, as He did to the Jew and Samaritan.
For we have said that He was sovereign. And when He acts, He must act the same every time. We realize, O Lord, that being finite, that we can promise and then not be able to fulfill it. But Thou, O Lord God, cannot promise and not be able, for Thou art God; You're infinite, and You know all things.

L-50 And we pray that Your Spirit will so anoint the people in this Angelus Temple, and those that will be coming in, that there'll be an old fashion revival of the pouring out of the Holy Spirit will strike this place; and may Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and all the churches of the living God receive the benefits. And may there come a revival up and down this West Coast, that'll cause literally tens of thousands to come to the Lord Jesus.


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